Mike Folkmann
Data Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Folkmann is a Data Infrastructure Solutions Architect with 10 years of focused experience designing and optimizing enterprise storage for NetApp and Pure Storage environments. He has progressed from hands-on systems administration to architecting clustered NetApp deployments and multisite data protection, bringing deep expertise in performance tuning and SnapManager tooling. Based in Lawrence, Kansas, he blends an autodidact full‑stack developer mindset with practical infrastructure engineering, evidenced by front-end contributions to popular dark-theme projects on GitHub. Mike is known for translating complex storage requirements into reliable, auditable solutions and has repeatedly led migrations and builds across diverse lines of business. His background managing hundreds of servers and terabytes of storage gives him a pragmatic perspective on scalability and operational resilience. Colleagues value his mix of system-level rigor and creative problem solving that surfaces less obvious efficiency gains.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
German
Stackoverflow
6,261reputation
1.1mreached
4answers
7questions
Github Skills (17)
darktheme10
javascript10
wordpress-themes10
bootstrap-theme10
chrome-extension10
google-chrome-extension10
wp-theme10
css9
shell6
php6
htaccess6
facebook-graph-api6
windows6
bash6
filebeat6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
liorgrossman/darkness
Oct 2016 - Jan 2022
⚠️ DEPRECATED: Dark Themes Extension - no longer functional due to Chrome Manifest V2 deprecation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:364 commits, 29 PRs, 160 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the "Darkness" project by creating and maintaining dark themes for various websites. Their work involved modifying the configuration file (`config.js`) to add new themes for websites like Google Inbox, GitHub, ShareLaTeX, Twitter, Reddit, Dropbox, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Instagram, Google Contacts, Google Photos, and more. The contributions focused on implementing and refining the visual appearance of the themes and addressing minor fixes to existing themes.
chrome
theme1256/darkness
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:234 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
draculacssdark-themedark-themesthemes
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